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August 29, 2025
FRANKLINVILLE — State environmental officers said immediate changes are needed after a fish kill in Ischua Creek was triggered by pollution from the G...
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Jun 14, 2020
Veterans’ Square was a busy site Saturday, hosting the “Blue Lives Matter” event organized to support law enforcement and gather signatures on a petit...
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Mar 20, 2020
New York state joined California on Friday in ordering nearly all residents to stay home, as governors watched with growing alarm as southern Europe b...
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Oct 05, 2018
WASHINGTON (AP) — A deeply divided Senate pushed Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination past a key procedural hurdle Friday, setting up a likely f...
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Aug 09, 2018
ALLEGANY — The state Department of Environmental Conservation seized “a lot” of exotic reptiles from a home of East Union Street in the village of All...
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Dec 17, 2017
Fires have altered the makeup of Olean’s downtown business district, and that was the case Dec. 17, 1972 — 45 years ago today — when the so-called Cam...
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May 31, 2017
For more than 55 years, Lon Myers’ internal compass has pointed him to Allegany State Park on the first weekend in June. Myers and some 600 other natu...
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Apr 26, 2017
OLEAN — Vontey Johnson did not seem in pain as he held his 2017 Hero of the Year award from the Forty & Eight community organization, which he accepte...
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Mar 09, 2017
OLEAN — Facing limited revenues, municipal department heads presented a final round of modest 2017-18 budget proposals Wednesday to a special session ...
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Mar 02, 2017
LITTLE VALLEY — Call it the call center that broke the camel’s back. Cattaraugus County Legislator Joseph Snyder, R-Ischua, cited the recent announcem...
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Feb 22, 2017
OLEAN — It’s budget season at City Hall, and aldermen formally addressed Mayor Bill Aiello’s proposed 2017-18 budget for the first time Tuesday. Membe...
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Feb 21, 2017
Local progressives weren’t expecting Rep. Tom Reed to radically change his views on issues like health care, abortion and President Donald Trump at hi...
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Feb 16, 2017
OLEAN — The Olean Rotary Club is planning a monument to a piece of city history that may also draw crowds to witness its creation. An aging population...
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Jan 16, 2017
OLEAN — A packed audience of all backgrounds spilled into the balcony area of First Presbyterian Church during the United We Stand Rev. Dr. Martin Lut...
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Dec 28, 2016
OLEAN — The city will await insurance details before deciding how to fund the purchase of a new backhoe to replace one that was damaged in September. ...
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Dec 11, 2016
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Le'Veon Bell had no issues with traction in establishing the Pittsburgh Steelers' rushing record on a slick, snow-covered fi...
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Nov 16, 2016
OLEAN — The push to revive a citywide neighborhood-safety program reached its first official city discussion Tuesday at the Olean Common Council’s Pub...
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Nov 06, 2016
After Michael E. Hill graduated from St. Bonaventure University in 1996, he made it a point to visit the Chautauqua Institution on a regular basis. No...
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Aug 01, 2016
OLEAN —Following what some Cattaraugus County Court officials described as one of the most chilling trials in recent memory, a woman convicted of trad...
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August 29, 2025
U.S. Rep. Nick Langworthy announced Friday that the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration has awa...
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August 29, 2025
ST. BONAVENTURE — St. Bonaventure University on Friday welcomed its second-largest class of incoming freshmen over the past two decades to the college...
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August 29, 2025
DEAR RUSTY: I plan to stop working very soon. My health is not good. I am 66 years old, born in June 1959, so my full retirement age is 66 years and 1...
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August 29, 2025
I’m guessing you’ve heard of pickleball by now. Maybe you’ve seen it played on a TV sports station, sitcom or commercial, or live at your local YMCA o...
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August 29, 2025
President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” nixed a host of green energy handouts created during the Biden administration. In response, advocates f...
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August 29, 2025
Turns out, President Trump is letting retribution be his retribution. The candidate who promised that success would be his best revenge upon his torme...
